Word: protestantism
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For hundreds of years, Harvard was a relatively homogeneous institution, catering to the rich, the white and the Protestant. When we speak of "difference" we traditionally think of differences between minority groups and that historical majority.
As redeemed Christians, Gomes says, and sinners all, we thus find ourselves afforded the liberty to remain "just as we are," fallen and unregenerately otiose. Thanks to the new gospel which the Spirit has revealed to the Reverend Professor, we discover that the Christian is free of any obligation to...
As a Christian of reformed and Protestant sensibilities myself, I am furthermore delighted to find that Gomes declares me to be emancipated from the moral burden of the Thomistic tradition.
Quite apart from my naive affection for Aristotelian ethics (shared with such other insufficiently Protestant men as Melanchton and Beza), I confess that in my former confusion, I had been somewhat struck by the theological ethics of Calvin and his successors; in that darkened state, I had been impressed more...
So I am delighted to find in the Reverend Gomes a man more reformed and Protestant than Karl Barth--to say nothing of Luther and Calvin; a man more Christian than Paul, Augustine or Aquinas; a man with more authority than all of these and the Scriptures put together; and...